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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: Reference Question?
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:18:29 -0600
From: Salim Mohammed <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Hi David-
I guess contact with the rest of the world is a little vague. Who
initiates contact? Do tourists visiting these cities count? Does other
contact include mail, e-mail, phone count? Or are we talking simply face
to face contact? What about "sister-city" relationships? Just on a
practical basis, I can imagine one making an estimate made by tourist
numbers and perhaps internet cafes in these towns, plus perhaps talking
to the post offices in these areas. It's a difficult problem, even if
you are talking of a city in the developed world.
Best, Salim
Angie Cope, AGSL wrote:
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> Subject: Reference Question?
> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:45:45 -0500
> From: David Cobb <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> Folks -
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> Just when you think you've heard it all --- one of our students has an
> interesting question regarding cultural interaction. Specifically, they
> wish to "measure" the amount of contact that the people of one city have
> with the rest of their country and world? More specifically, they are
> looking at this relationship for Tirana, Albania; Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria;
> Indore and Jabalpur, India? My instinct tells me there is some indirect
> relationship here to central place theory but am wondering if others may
> have some ideas -- all appreciated no matter how abstract. Thanks.
>
> David Cobb
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